Dell Down, HP Layoffs, Lenovo Surging

The PC may be dead according to most media but in China they think different. Lenovo showed some excellent quarterly results with PC desktop shipments up 43% and notebooks up 41%. Interestingly it was not only the Chinese market that brought them good result. Lenovo also reported strong sales in North America which were up […] Read more »

Slate 8 Is Late … And Just In Time

Nobody could have missed the list of hardware announcements during HP’s Global Influencers  Summit on May 9th in Shanghai. More in particular HP announced: HP ENVY SpectreXT, an ultra thin and light notebook HP ENVY Sleekbooks and HP ENVY Ultrabook , notebooks for entertainment HP EliteBook Folio, a notebook for the business environment HP t410 […] Read more »

The Future Of The Desktop Is Out Of The Box

In 3001 Frank Poole was brought back alive after floating in space for about a 1000 years after HAL got a mind of its own. Being revived, Frank was at first not really connected to his new environment, hardly able to communicate; things had definitely changed. Then he got his Brain Cap that directly connected […] Read more »

Bring Your Own Deception

Cisco had an interesting Cisco Plus Virtual conference lined up running simultaneously in Brussels, Oslo,  Amsterdam and Stockholm. Part of the agenda focused around the new big trend: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). During the conference Cisco and partners stressed the importance of this trend but also that it needs carefully planning and preparation within […] Read more »

Colt: Good And Bad

Colt just reported on its 2011 results. Last year we were a bit skeptic about Colt. All went well but no topline growth. Since 2005 Colt has undergone restructuring after reorganization to transform from a traditional voice driven carrier to a higher-end managed services provider by constantly investing in its network and managed services operation. […] Read more »

Getting Rid Of E-Waste

Dutch EU member of parliament Gerben Jan Gerbrandy (D66) wants to collect electronic waste the same way we collect empty bottles and paper. Just dump it in the e-waste bin. A brilliant solution to a growing problem. But why haven’t we thought of it before? Interestingly the nature of the e-waste problem has changed over […] Read more »